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etribution." - Anne O'Hare McCormick, New York Times, October 23rd 1946
"The expulsion of the entire native population of eastern Germany by the puppet government of
Poland is a crime against humanity for which retribution must be made."
The Houston Chronicle, March 28th 1947
"The most inhuman decision ever made by governments."
Anne O'Hare McCormick, The New York Times, November 13th 1946
THE BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY
The British Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, who witnessed the sight of the expellees, reacted with
horror and reported to the House of Commons. "It was a pathetic sight - the stream of perambulators
and small vehicles of one kind or another, and the people were nearly all women and children, with
very few men at all. Once could not help saying, 'My God! This is the price of stupidity and war. It
was the most awful sight one could see."
RICHARD STRAUSS! CLEAR OUT BY MORNING
Richard Strauss, the last of the great classical composers, eighty-one years of age, had retired to his
beloved home in Garmisch, awakened to find nailed to his door a notice posted by an American
soldier: : 'Clear out by morning!'
ANTON WEBERN, SHOT DOWN IN COLD BLOOD
Anton Webern, the Austrian classical composer, contemporary and pupil of Arnold Schoenberg, then
aged sixty-two years of age, was shot dead by an American G.I whilst visiting his daughters near
Salzburg on 15th, September, 1945 - over five months after the war had ended.
He had, before his death, buried most of his valued possessions, compositions and manuscripts in the
garden of his Viennese home.
"These remained unharmed when the invading soldiers took over the abandoned house, but they
inflicted senseless damage on what remained in sight. Scores, books, and correspondence were
strewn about the yard; Webern's cello was kicked in; his personal papers were used for kindling."
Jonathan D. Kramer, Listening to Music
BRITISH PRESS REPORTS OF THE PERIOD FOLLOWING THE WAR'S END
"Each day between fifty and one-hundred children, a total of over 5,000 already over a short period -
who have lost both their parents, or have been abandoned, are collected from Berlin's stations and
taken to orphanages or found foster mothers in Berlin."
"Of eighty-three persons (women and children) crammed into two of the trucks twenty were dead."
Berlin Correspondent, The Times, September, 10th, 1945
"Three orphans I saw aged between eight and twelve are still almost skeletons after ten days
treatment... none of them weighed more than three stone. Another small boy turned out of Danzig
had a scrawled postcard attached to him stating that his soldier father was long since missing and that
his mother and two sisters had died of hunger." - Berlin Correspondent, The Times, September 10th
1945
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